By ALI ABU IRAQ
Institute for War & Peace Reporting
BASRA - Our motorboat glided over an area that was dry land a mere month ago, attracting the attention of the marsh dwellers at the water’s edge.
Seeing our urban clothes, one of them mistook us for government officials and called out, "May Allah have mercy on your parents’ souls for releasing the water!"
The Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq are trying to revive an ancient way of life disrupted by the draining of the wetlands on which...
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